A recent piece by the New York Times talked about the benefits of catching some Zs during your tedious work day.

It's true: Employees and companies alike can benefit from a 20-minute nap during work. Employees will allegedly wake up more alert and ready to tackle any tasks they have to accomplish in the afternoon hours.

The trick is not to surpass 20-minutes because any more than that can result in sleep inertia — a period of grogginess you may experience after a prolonged nap.

Jerome Siegel, director of the UCLA Center for Sleep Research, tells the New York Times that it's also important to steer clear of caffeine during the hours after lunch and to make a habit of waking up at the same time every day.

This way, no matter if you get five or eight hours of sleep, you'll always wake up at the same time.

So how do you pull off taking a nap during the work day? Check out some suggestions below:

Head over to your car or an unoccupied room in your office.

Set your alarm for 20-minutes. (You don't want to deal with inertia.)

Get yourself relaxed by blocking out light, listening to an audiobook, or blocking out all noise using earplugs.

After this invigorating nap, you should be able to tackle just about anything, or at least speak coherent sentences by the watercooler.